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Valentine Greatrakes [ Science / Art and Literature ]

… Greatrakes was a miracle healer, pranotherapist, esoteric and magical provocateur of emotions who gained widespread popularity in Restoration England. His influence on irrational crowds provides evidence of both a conscious and an … Literature Keywords Miracle Healer Supernaturalism Pseudo-science Public Figure Charisma Irrational Crowd Bill of Rights Popular Emancipation In 1666 Valentine Greatrakes (Affane, County of Waterford, 14 February 1628 – 28 November 1682) achieved …

Sugar [ Food & Drink ]

… Sugar Cane (1764). The 1790s saw a major sugar boycott, in which female consumers participated and which aimed at the emancipation of slaves. Information about slavery in the West Indies was distributed through pamphlets, satirical prints, … common in the eighteenth century. It was linked to the sociable consumption of tea, sweet pastries, rum, and punch. As a popular consumer item, West Indian sugar, which was produced with slave labour, became the target of a boycott promoted … of sociability’ in the eighteenth-century British home, which were related to tea and the tea-table. 4  If, prior to its popularisation, sugar had also been used as medicine, spice, decoration, or to preserve food, in the eighteenth century, …

Bath (and the reinvention of spa sociability) [ Cities / Politics & Society ]

… a new image for the British nation. 1  In a context of rivalry with France, the refinement of manners meant a degree of emancipation from the French model of politeness. 2  The desire to change social behaviour was apparent in the aesthetics … a false medium’ ( Bath History IV , 101). Sociability itself was exploited, became a business and the ever-increasing popularity of Bath contributed to its decline.  This is corroborated by the skyrocketing number of visitors from 400 … to choose one’s friends – and pleasure – the pleasure of association. In Bath, the stay could also involve a degree of emancipation: for women, temporary emancipation from the patriarchal model of sociability, from the prescriptions of the …

Spa sociability in Bath and Pyrmont [ Health / Nature ]

… Praise for these waters, both at the spring and bottled, appeared in print no later than 1717. This understanding was popularized in Britain by an English translation and adaptation of Johann Philipp Seip’s 1717 German description (1733), … by the Bath bellringers and the Bath musicians (Cossic, Bath , 102) regardless of their rank, expected immediate emancipation from their customary routine and a degree of refinement of their manners. Yet they were immediately put … set of laws. They were thus forced to swap a previous code of behaviour – chivalric for the members of the aristocracy, popular for the rest – for a more egalitarian one that also had its own constraints. Yet in Bath the power of the Master …